My Weight Loss Coach

As you may have read, for my birthday my brother gave me the "My Weight Loss Coach" program and JP gave me a lovely red Nintendo DS Lite. I started the program on my birthday.

It's really a great tool. It comes with a pedometer that connects to the DS so it can keep a record of the steps walked and there are eating and exercise goals. It gives me challenges to complete - some 1 minute challenges like an quick exercise and others are 24 hour challenges like eating a piece of fruit, or washing the dishes (get up and move!). There are also games that teach you nutrition facts and what foods have fibre or fat or carbohydrates - the better you score the more challenges you earn.

On Friday I ate more than I exercised. The program was gentle about it. I was glad that it reminded me of my most common mistake - big portions! On Saturday I had a headache in the morning and when to a party in the afternoon - I didn't even log in at all. On Sunday I didn't receive any nasty messages so I thought I got away with it, but then a weekly chart showed me a big red dot on the zero indicating that it knew full well that I was AWOL that day.

I am more aware of what I consume, as everything get logged into the program. If I'm too lazy to log it in then I don't want to eat it. It's only been 5 days so I don't have a progress report for you yet, but I'll let you know as I progress.

I have been walking almost daily with Jazz(my dawg-another weight loss coach), at least 6 days a week and I feel great - very energetic - and even Jazz (who's 12 and I think has an arthritic 'ankle') seemed to be very energetic during this morning's walk. And when I turn on the game, a cute little girl is very happy to 'see' me and expresses "neat - you're here!". What a cute little coach I have.